tenure
tenure 英 [ˈtenjə(r)] 美 [ˈtɛnjɚ, -ˌjʊr]
n. 任期；占有 vt. 授予…终身职位
名词复数:tenures
- Take the noun tenure for the period of time a person holds a position or office. Your tenure as a student ends when you graduate high school — unless, of course, you go on to college.
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- n. 任期；占有
- vt. 授予…终身职位
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1. I know that there are very high expectations for my tenure as ambassador.
我知道人们对我作为大使的任期有着非常高的期望。
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2. They then assessed participants’ earnings and job tenure before and after their involvement in the programme.
之后他们对这些参与者在参与这项计划前后的工作任期进行了评估。
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3. After all, lending rates, averaging less than 6 per cent, are low and most infrastructure loans have no principal due for several years, well beyond the tenure of most local officials.
毕竟，平均不到6%的贷款利率并不高，而大部分基础设施建设贷款的本金要数年后才会到期，远远超过了多数地方官员的任期。
- tenure (n.) early 15c., "holding of a tenement," from Anglo-French and Old French tenure "a tenure, estate in land" (13c.), from Old French tenir "to hold," from Vulgar Latin *tenire, from Latin tenere "to hold" (see tenet). The sense of "condition or fact of holding a status, position, or occupation" is first attested 1590s. Meaning "guaranteed tenure of office" (usually at a university or school) is recorded from 1957. Related: Tenured (1961).
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